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Placed’s Top 100 monthly rankings of most visited businesses has been published for January 2017. The top categories to experience a climb in rankings this month include Automotive, Gas Stations, and QSR’s. Enterprise rose 17 spots to the 100th most visited business in January, whereas Sonic, Dairy Queen, and Valero each climbed 16 spots.

Dairy Queen, in addition to Baskin-Robbins (which increased by 15 ranking points) should be no surprise this month, as January marked the 18th warmest one on record in 123 years in the contiguous US.

Chevrolet Dealers and Ford Dealers, which each rose 11 spots and 9 spots respectively, experienced growth in foot traffic as January is tagged a favorable month to buy the most recent models of cars–sales are typically slow, and manufactures increase the price tag as the year goes on.

In terms of the biggest hits in rankings this month, the 25 businesses that experienced the largest drop in rankings all spanned the Retail category, a predictable trend given the end of the holiday shopping season. Retail businesses that declined the least in January 2017 rankings include The Home Depot, Dollar Tree, and the UPS Store, which each only dropped one spot from December. The 10 businesses to experience the largest declines on the list can be found below:

Placed’s Top 100 monthly business list, ranked by highest in-store foot traffic, is now available for December 2016. Due to the prominent season of buying and giving in December, the majority of this month’s big movers fell under the Shopping category. 37 businesses in total experienced an increase in ranking, 78% of which were Retail businesses. Only four businesses in the Food & Beverage category experienced upward movement on the list: Chili’s, Olive Garden, Panda Express, and Buffalo Wild Wings.

The idea that offline retail is certainly not dead rang particularly true this month, especially for Clothing & Apparel stores, as five of these businesses climbed at least 20 spots in ranking: Express jumped 35 spots (previously, Express ranked 123 in November and did not even make last month’s top 100 list), followed by increases in Hot Topic (+32 spots), Forever 21 (+25 spots), Victoria’s Secret (+22 spots), and Dick’s Sporting Goods (+20 spots).

In terms of the biggest hits in rankings this month, Dairy Queen’s rank continues to dwindle with the warm weather, followed by several Gas Station and Restaurant (QSR and Fast Casual) businesses declining relatively in December. Although holiday travel was predicted to reach the highest level on record this year, Thanksgiving 2016 alone was set to be the busiest for travel in nine years. The rankings show that travel by road was stronger in November than December, as Chevron dropped 12 spots, while Mobil experienced a decrease of ten spots, and BP a decline of nine rankings.

View the full rankings for December here and lookout for the first official top business list of 2017 movers and shakers next month.

November’s Top 100 Business Ranking List has been released by Placed. Based on in-store foot traffic measured through Placed’s 2.5 million user audience, this month’s list is a crucial one given the onset of the holiday shopping season. Typical of this time of year, 13 of the 15 businesses with the largest jump in store visit rank were retailers. The biggest climbers in rankings include Gap (+16 spots), Bath And Body Works (+15), J.C.Penney, Victoria’s Secret, and Macy’s (all +11 spots each).

Placed’s Top 100 Business Ranking List, based on in-store foot traffic, is now available for October. 35 businesses in total saw an increase in rank versus September, the two most prominent categories being Department Stores and Discount Stores, Warehouse & Wholesale Stores, with six businesses each experiencing upwards movement on the list.

Shopping in the spirit of spooky was the large driver behind this growth, as Party City climbed 21 spots to the number 84 most visited business in October. Foot traffic showed that US consumers were all about DIY costumes with attention to detail this year, as Goodwill rose 8-points, Michaels rose 7-points, and Sally’s Beauty Supply rose 5-points.

Placed’s Top 100 Business Ranking List, based on in-store foot traffic, is now available for September. 35 businesses in total saw an increase in rank versus August, the two most prominent categories being Fast Food and Gas Stations & Convenience Stores with four businesses each experiencing a climb on the list. Dominos’s Pizza and FedEx tied for the lead in terms of month-over-month rank change, rising 6 spots on the list, closely followed by Baskin-Robbins and Popeye’s Chicken.